2026-09-12 · Michigan · Compliance

What happened. Michigan boards asking whether the state has a “right to charge” law keep getting told no. The answer is more useful than that: Michigan has no standalone EV-charging statute, but electric vehicle supply equipment is named in the Homeowners' Energy Policy Act's list of protected improvements, and has been since the act took effect on 2 April 2025.¹

Where it sits in the statute

Section 3 of 2024 PA 68 defines “energy-saving improvement or modification” by list. Electric vehicle supply equipment appears in that list alongside clotheslines, air-source and ground-source heat pumps, insulation, rain barrels, reflective roofing, energy-efficient appliances, solar water heaters, energy-efficient windows and insulation materials.

Section 5 then does the work. Any provision of an association's governing documents that prohibits — or requires association approval for — a member replacing, maintaining, installing or operating one of those improvements is “invalid and unenforceable as contrary to public policy.” The same section covers auxiliary changes needed to install one, and bars a local unit of government from conditioning its own approval on the association's.

What that does and does not give a Michigan owner

It removes the approval gate for equipment the owner installs on what is theirs. It does not do the three things a genuine right-to-charge statute does. There is no obligation on the association to grant access to a common-element parking space, no allocation of electrical capacity, no cost-and-insurance framework of the kind California, Colorado and Florida have written.

1. 2024 PA 68, Homeowners' Energy Policy Act — enrolled act text (sections 3, 5 and 13) ↩
2. Michigan Public Service Commission, framework for utility Transportation Electrification Plans, 23 January 2025 (Case No. U-21492) ↩